At 10:26 PM 6/17/2003 -0700, Mike wrote:
[snip]
Garth, I have no argument about the patriotism on US channels. Fact
is, I don't even get any of them nor would i probably watch them if i
did.
I'm sorry to hear that. The quality of U.S. channels may or may not be
better, but at least there's more variety.
I think the quality of the TV news has gone down as the media is
concentrated in a few hands. My three and a half watchable channels are
all Canadian.
The CBC must be the "half-watchable" Canadian channel you get. ;-) (I
consider the CBC to be "half-watchable" at the best of times, and a total
sinkhole for taxpayers' dollars at the worst of times...) As for news
quality, well, it's *always* been pretty poor, if you ask me -- we're all
just more discriminating consumers of it now.
[snip]
The Arrow story was an interesting one and well done and Canadians should
be justly proud of the
accomplishments. And i think the bill payers in Ottawa like to see a
little flag waving and horn tooting too.
Sadly, we are mostly "justly proud" of accomplishments long past. Perhaps
that'll change someday, but most of us aren't holding our collective breath.
Garth
P.S.: Back to camera content! Went and bought my start-of-summer supply
of transparency film today to feed to the OMonsters, and was once again
reminded that this ain't a cheap hobby. Five rolls of Provia 100F for
$65.00 CDN, without processing! With expenses like these, I have no need
to dump filthy lucre into digital -- I can go broke with good old-fashioned
film, thanks very much.
P.P.S.: Of course, I'm told I'm not allowed to go gallivantin' around
taking pictures until I'm finished renovating the basement. <hangdog
expression>
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